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UPDATE, writethru: Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum took out a hit on its predecessors at the international box office, opening to $35.2M in 66 markets. In each of those, the starts were higher than John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2. Coupled with the terrific domestic launch, the global cume through…

Joe and Anthony Russo are riding high—about as high as it's possible to get—as their superhero showdown Avengers: Endgame surpassed $2.5B in global gross to sink Titanic and take second place with Avatar in sight for the all time top grossing film. The brothers have spent the last seven years at Marvel working with…

MTV has revealed nominees for the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which this year are set to air June 17 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Zachary Levi is the host.
Disney/Marvel’s juggernaut Avengers: Endgame, HBO’s juggernaut Game of Thrones and the Oscar-nominated Ruth Bader Gisnburg documentary RBG (among the…

Sunday AM Update/writethru:Following Saturday 7:28AM post, with final: Warner Bros./Legendary’s Pokémon Detective Pikachu is coming in ahead of its $50M-$55M domestic tracking with a $58M No. 2 opening being called by the studio. They excelled with the first Pokemon movie back in 1999 with a $31M launch, and they’ve…

Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Christine McCarthy took on a range of topics during the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday after the company reported strong results.
Among the notable takeaways from the call were Iger asserting a cautious approach to Hulu — of which…

Disney is continuing to deliver the goods, reporting second-quarter financials substantially better than Wall Street analysts’ forecasts.
Earnings per share came in at $1.61, four cents better than the consensus, while total revenue of $14.92 billion was nearly $400 million ahead of the Street’s outlook.
CEO Bob Iger…

At a time when Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgameis still the boss at the box office with a running global total of $2.27 billion, Legendary Entertainment/Warner Bros’ Pokémon Detective Pikachuis looking to push his way in and grab as much as he can with a $50 million–$55 million domestic opening weekend at…

The Hero Nation Indexis a Monday round-up of news from the genre sector (sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, horror, and animation).Game For More? Author George R.R. Martin says HBO’s first Game of Thrones “successor show” (aka spin-off) will begin filming this year while two others are…

2ND SUNDAY UPDATE, writethruafter 8:14AM post: With an estimated $2,188.7M global through Sunday, Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame has sailed past Titanic to become the No. 2 movie ever worldwide. The same goes for overseas where Endgame is also now No. 2 with a running cume of $1.569B. That’s after grossing a…

As the old saying goes, you can make it fast, you can make it cheap, and you can make it good, but you can’t have all three. In the case of STXfilms and Alibaba’s UglyDolls, it was the first two points making for a disastrous start at the box office of $8.5M for this reported $45M-$53M net production, intended to…